Tidewright
Survey a drowning archipelago one tide at a time. Every dyke you plot pushes the water somewhere else — usually onto a neighbour.
- Out
- Early access Q1 2027
- On
- PC · Switch
- So far
- Wishlists 41,280
Small strategy games, built on a square grid.
We are nine people in an old print shop by the canal. We make turn-based games you can read at a glance and still be turning over a week later.
09people in a converted print shop on the Lieve canal
03games shipped, every one still patched
612kplayers across Steam, Switch and mobile
00crunch weeks since the studio opened in 2019
01 / Games
Three released, one on the board.
Each game is one rule set on one grid, tuned for years rather than months.
Ledger of Small Hours
Run a night market on a twelve-by-nine lot. Stalls open at dusk, rents fall due at three, and the books balance by dawn or not at all.
- Out
- March 2023
- On
- PC · Mac · iPad
- So far
- Very Positive · 4,812 reviews
Pocket Siege
An eight-by-six tactics duel sized for one train ride. Eleven pieces a side, perfect information, no dice and no luck to blame.
- Out
- June 2021
- On
- PC · Switch · iOS · Android
- So far
- 512,000 players
Notes from the build.
- 24.09.26DesignWhy the tide moves before you doWe swapped the turn order. Players now see where the water goes before committing a single dyke, and the hardest islands got easier to read without getting easier to win.8 min
- 11.09.26EngineFlooding 4,096 tiles in under a millisecondA flood fill per turn sounded cheap until the late-game maps arrived. Notes on bitsets, dirty regions and the bug that drowned a lighthouse.12 min
- 28.08.26ArtEleven greys and one warning colourTidewright has no blue water. How we built a palette where the only saturated thing on screen is the tile you are about to regret.6 min
- 09.08.26StudioNext Fest: 38,000 plays and what brokeThe demo held up. The tutorial did not. Heatmaps of where people quit, and the three screens we have already rewritten.10 min
Four rules we have not broken yet.
- 01One board, read at a glance
If a screenshot cannot tell you who is winning, the rules are too clever. We cut until it can.
- 02No hidden dice
Every outcome is visible a turn ahead. Losing should feel like your idea, not the game’s.
- 03Ship small, patch for years
Pocket Siege got its 41st update this spring. Small games are how we can afford to keep caring.
- 04Forty-hour weeks
No crunch, no exceptions, including launch. The schedule bends; people do not.
One room, one table, one build.
- Lotte VermeulenDirector, design
- Ibrahim SaidiSystems design
- Mirela PetrescuArt direction
- Jonas De WildeEngine & tools
- Aiko BrandtAudio
- Pieter ClaesLevel design
- Noor HaddadProduction
- Tomás FerreiraQA & automation
- Elin StrandCommunity